Regulars at the grill described the earthquake as not much more than a minor scare.

Tom Smiley, an American Family Insurance agent, said he had been getting e-mails and calls from co-workers in Omaha asking if he was selling earthquake insurance.

Kevin ColeWORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Smiley said that, at first, he thought the City of Auburn might be dumping large amounts of snow outside his house, and the tractor's bucket fell to the ground too quickly.

At the Cox home, Debbie said that she heard what sounded like a large explosion, but there wasn't enough trembling to shake the snow off the roof. "My daughter came flying out of her bedroom and said, "Mom, what was that?"

Her daughter's boyfriend, who lives in Tecumseh, knew immediately what it was. "He said, 'It's probably just an earthquake. We live on the Humboldt fault line.'"

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Kevin ColeWORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Some people in town were thinking meth lab explosion.

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Kevin ColeWORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Most residents said the earthquake of 2004 left a bigger impression

Nancy GaarderWORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Dishes rattled and buildings shook in the Schuyler area Thursday morning as a 3.3 magnitude earthquake rumbled up from one of the Midlands' many unmapped faults.

I didn't feel anything around here but on the NBC news tonight, I think they said there have been several quakes in that Kansas/OK area in just the last two weeks. They had like 90 that registered at 2.0 this year alone.